Messages in this thread | | | From | kevin granade <> | Date | Fri, 22 Oct 2010 11:51:31 -0500 | Subject | Re: On Linux numbering scheme |
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On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 8:25 AM, Genes MailLists <lists@sapience.com> wrote: > On 10/22/2010 06:41 AM, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: >> On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 1:33 PM, Artem S. Tashkinov <t.artem@lycos.com> wrote: >>> What can you say about kernel 2.6.32? Almost nothing. >>> >>> What can you say about kernel 3.11.3? - it is the third release of >>> Linux in 2011. >> >> And? What a useless information. >> >> BTW, it should be 3.2011.3, see Y2K. >> -- > > If you -really- wanna go that route - may as well be > > 20.11.3.18
I think the reason day was excluded by previous suggestions is that the current development model doesn't generate a "blessed" version on anything close to a daily rate. Even if you wanted to incorporate the -rcs or -next into this scheme, it seems like it'd be somewhat problematic since the day field would drop in value during development e.g. 20.11.3.18 = 2.6.37-rc1 20.11.3.25 = 2.6.37-rc2 20.11.4.2 = 2.6.36-rc3
That having been said, <century>.<year>.<month> would be as valid as 3.<year>.<month>, and might help drive home the point that the version number is "a point in development" rather than some kind of "indicator of feature releases".
> > century.decade.month.day .. that way we don't have problem until we > hit the year 10,000 ... :-)
Or until the New Galactic Calendar is introduced... ;)
Silliness aside, what are the deficiencies of the current numbering that are being addressed here? The only things I can come up with are, "major number is getting too big" and "development no longer follows a major/minor feature based model, so the version numbering scheme should reflect this". Are there any other reasons for a change?
Kevin
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